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“Hannah,” he starts again “I didn’t know This changes everything, but it’s not that I want to leave?”

“Why?” I ask I want the ground to shole, so I don’t have to keep experiencing this any that’s ever happened to me “You don’t have to stay just because of o”

A pained expression passes over Marco’s face “Bella, please don’t ht now Not when I’m, well, still a little… indisposed”

At first, I don’t understand what he esture draws my attention down – down to his lap, where I can still see a certain bulging shape My eyes widen Does that …?

“I don’t think less of you,” Marco says He reaches out and cups the side of entle calo “Actually, it’s the opposite But your first time should be special”

A thickness is clogging ue, oing to be,” I say, stubbornly “Don’t I get to decide what’s special?”

Marco sh he wants to bite his lip to keep fro “You’re impatient,” he says, neither a rebuke nor a question, just a statement “But trust me, mi bella I will make it special for you I will”

My eyes widen again Does that ht, we can still…? “Now?” I ask, my voice barely more than a whisper as I dare to hope

“Not tonight” Marco shakes his head “It needs tiive you a whole day, a dedication to only your pleasure We start on the streets of this beautiful city and I willperfect for you”

I can feel ht not be entirely attractive, but I can’t help it “But…”

“But you’re impatient, yes” Marco s oversoive you just a little taste”